One of the biggest events in pop culture each year is the Oscars Award show, an annual event that celebrates film and cinema. The show is officially called the Academy Awards, at which small iconic golden statues are given to actors, actresses, producers, directors, and animators who have had particular outstanding achievements during the last […]
Whirlwind in Sonoma and Marin
(Originally published at DailyCensored.org for Project Censored). A few months ago, I was lying in bed enjoying the morning sunrise over the mountain range. Out my window the coastal fog had settled upon the open field next to the apple orchard. A gentle breeze was blowing in from the Pacific Ocean. From a distance, I […]
Vladimir Alexeyevich Smirnov: Building a Safer World, One Disarmed Bomb at a Time
Oscar Wilde once said that when good Americans die, they go to Paris. But what about decommissioned nuclear weapons? Where do old nuclear warheads go when they die? Believe it or not, thanks in part to a conscientious Russian businessman named Vladimir Alexeyevich Smirnov, many of them go to America. In fact, news sources report […]
Cold Fusion: The Ghost of Free Energy
Two decades ago a pair of eminent chemists claimed to find the secret of almost limitless energy, only to have their results dismissed several weeks later. Today many scientists think there was truth in the claims but, as Jon Cartwright discovers, few are still listening The late writer Arthur C Clarke had a knack for […]
Who Really Won the Vietnam War?
WHO WON, WHO LOST ? THE VIETNAM WAR A DISCUSSION !?! 0/ INTRODUCTION A couple of Micro and Macro points seem to be starting a discussion about who won, who lost, the Vietnam war. It began, for me, with news of the planned re-opening ! of a GI COFFEE-HOUSE in Killeen, near […]
History Happening: Sydney, Kormoran, and Grossman Found
Max Watts, Annandale, Australia March, 2008: Sydney, Kormoran, and Grossman have been found: Oh ! said my American Friend: “I didn’t even know they were lost !” They were. They had been. The Sydney and the Kormoran, together, since 1941. Grossman – perhaps linked, – since 1951. Of Grossman(n), more below. Now, March 2008, 67 […]